Transdisciplinary Thinking in Information science

Document Type : Research Article

Author

• narges neshat

Associate Professor of the National Library and Document Center of the Islamic Republic of Iran

10.22067/riis.v1i2.9561

Abstract

Information is a fluid concept, so that any time we want to investigate it are multiple and multifaceted. This led to assume that their information is a diversity and multiplicity. Because of the close interdependence between different variables and there is another use of the information is not merely a model for efficient and successful analysis of information and a series of positions to be more actively into the analysis. Here role of transdisciplinary is meant to benefit from the multiplicity of this approach, the approach suggests that the desire to create unity and models to explain the causes and implications of the recognition of multiple causes. Thus, the new methods and models to describe and explain the problem and will be criticism and analysis. It is evident that only through practical activities in the field of information can not reach a comprehensive understanding of the field. To answer the basic questions facing the field of information and information science is the understanding of information science is necessary but not sufficient, in comparison, a solid foundation of information science that is rooted in the traditions of extensive research for each active librarian and informationist update access to the collective results of many other minds, and the overall experience provides a more general degree. Although, the extent of information science with the information functions, but this does not function, the methodical and systematic research on the information - and other related issues - that makes up the research in the field of Information science. From this, it is intended to study the role of transdisciplinary thinking in information science.

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